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On the recordApril 25, 2023
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. Mr. McCONNELL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 72, nays 22, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 95 Ex.] YEAS--72 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Britt Brown Budd Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Cruz Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Marshall Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--22 Braun Cornyn Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hawley Lankford Lee Lummis McConnell Mullin Paul Ricketts Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Vance Wicker NOT VOTING--6 Barrasso Blackburn Feinstein Hagerty Risch Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Warnock). On this vote, the yeas are 72, the nays are 22. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from New Jersey. Diversity in Broadcasting
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 25, 2023

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